Stefos METAXAS was born in Larnaca, Cyprus, in 1931 and died in 2010.

From an early age, he showed an interest in theatre, dance, music, song and sport. During his professional travels abroad, he visited museums and galleries, gradually enriching his knowledge of art and developing a strong personal appreciation for painting. In 1988, he decided to devote himself seriously to painting, encouraged and guided by his schoolmate and close friend Stelios Votsis.

Metaxas was a self-taught Cypriot painter whose work is marked by imagination, lyricism and a distinctive narrative quality. His paintings often depict ports, boats, townscapes, figures and symbolic scenes, rendered with a poetic and sometimes fairytale-like atmosphere.

His work is characterised by rich colour, decorative rhythm and a personal sense of composition. Through acrylic and oil paintings, he created visual worlds filled with movement, memory and dreamlike detail. His compositions often suggest labyrinthine spaces, intimate stories and a playful transformation of everyday subjects.

Stefos Metaxas presented his work in exhibitions in Cyprus and his paintings have appeared in private collections and auctions. He remains recognised as a Cypriot artist whose late-blooming creative practice produced a personal and imaginative body of work, admired for its colour, spontaneity and poetic charm.